"I was really bummed about that," Jeremy Renner told Total Film. "It really kind of stalled because when we were rehearsing — Phil (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), Paul and myself — we kept coming up against a wall that we couldn't overcome. Or at least Paul couldn't overcome."

We're sorely disappointed by this turn of events, but we can't say we're terribly surprised. Anderson's take on Scientology was almost sure to be critical, and would've made working in Hollywood increasingly difficult for him and all the film's stars.

"I don't have any new information [about 'The Master']. I really mean that, I'm not being obtuse," Hoffman recently told The Playlist. "I don't quite know what that is at the moment, but hopefully I will and hopefully I'll be part of something soon. It would be great to work with him again."